Charles spielmann



(No Model.)

0. SPIBLMANN. CONSECUTIVE NUMBERING MACHINE.

No. 436,109. Patented Sept. 9,1890.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SPIELMANN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM A. FORCE, OF SAME PLACE.

CONSECUTlVE-NUMBERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,109, dated September 9, 1890. Application filed January 20, 1890. Serial No. 337,429. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES SPIELMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Consecutive-Numbering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed as an improvement upon consecutive-numbering machines heretofore existing, especially that shown and described in Letters Patent to William A. Force and Willard W. Sawyer, dated October 8, 1889, No. 412,489; and the object of my invention is to simplify the parts and make more positive in their action the devices for moving away the inking-pad from the face of the type while the type-disks are being rotated to alter the numbering of the machine.

My invention consists in a swinging lever and pivoted arm combined with the numbered disks and inking-pad and their operating 1nechanism,theswingingleverhavingadouble functionviz., that of operating the pivoted dogs to revolve the numbered disks, and also simultaneously moving the pivoted arm to depress the disk-carrying frame and so operate the cam-arms and plates of the inkingpad to depress said pad, so that the numbering-disks can be rotated without coming in contact with the pad.

tive-numbering machine, which is in the shape of a yoke or inverted U, and formed therewith is a sleeve or neck a. The lower ends of the uprights of the frame a are connected by a plate I), having an aperture through which the types pass to give the impression upon the article to be printed.

Within the frame a there is a movable yoke or inverted-U-shaped frame 0, to the upper end of Which is connected a tubular slotted rod d, capped with a handle 6. A pin f passes through the sleeve a and through the slot of the rod cl, and within said tubular rod is a helical spring g, the ends of which bear, respectively, upon the pin f and the upper inner end of the rod d, to return and restore the frame 0, rod cl, and handle (2 to their elevated or normal condition.

The yoke or inverted-U -shaped frame 0 has passing through it a central shaft h, the ends of which project and enter vertical grooves on the inner faces of the uprights of the frame a, and are guided thereby.

Each disk 1 has upon one side a ratchet-face i',thatis secured to and rotates in unison with the disk. These ratchet-faces have teeth corresponding in number and location with the type upon the face of its disk.

The following description relates peculiarly to the features of my present invention.

There are dogs is corresponding in number with the type-disks i and ratchets t, and these dogs are pivoted at their upper ends in the yoke frame 0, and their toothed lower ends engage the teeth of the ratchets 1 and springs Z-bear against the back of the dogs to press them against the teeth of the ratchets, z and by said dogs a'backward movement of the type-disks is prevented.

My machine is a self-inker, and for this purpose or is an inking-pad adapted to contact the types to ink them. This pad m is carried by a yoke at, whose arms are adapted to straddle the frame a, and said arms are forked or slotted for the shaft h, which they straddle.

There are cam-plates o pivoted at. one end, at 3,upon the inner faces of the frame a, and the other ends of these cam-plates are pivoted at 5 to the uprights of the pad-yoke at.

These cam-plates 0 have curved slots at? for the shaft h, which passes through said slots. When the yoke-frame cis depressed by handpressure upon the handle 6, the shaft h descends and in its descent operates the camplates 0, swinging them on their fixed pivots 3. These cam-plates in their turn simultaneously operate the inking-pad m and its yoke n by the pivot-connections 5 and swing said pad about a quarter-revolution around the shaft h as a pivot from beneath the typedisks to a position at one side out of the way in printing. After printing, and as the yoke frame 0 and other moving parts are released, the action of the helical spring 9 elevates and returns all the parts to their normal position.

I provide a lever r and lever-arm 0", connected together or in one piece and pivoted at 8 and move in unison. Between the uprights of the yoke-frame c and at the extreme end of the lever-arm '1" are pivoted dogs 8, similar to those shown in Fig. 5 of aforesaid patent and correspondin gin number,and said dogs 8 are adapted to engage the teeth of the ratchet-faces z" to revolve the type-disks progressively in the usual manner to form the combinations of numerals in regular succession. I also provide an arm 1, pivoted at 9 in lugs formed upon the surface of the sleeve a of the yoke-frame a, and said sleeve is slotted for the reception of this arm. The outer curved end of this arm t bears against,the surface of the lever 0', While its inner end bears against the base of one slot of the tubular rod d, as will be seen in Fig. 3.

The operation of this lever and arm is as follows: The lever r is moved by the thumb or finger toward the tubular slotted rod (1, and with the lever-arm r it is swung on the pivot 8. As the lever moves up, it engages and swings the pivotal arm 25, which bears against it, moving its outer end up and its inner end down, and depressing the tubular slotted rod (1 and yoke-frame c a small distance, sufficient, however, to operate and swing the cam-plates 0 upon their pivots 3, and by the pivot-connection 5 between the cam-plates 0 and yoke 71 depress the yoke n and padm sufficiently to move the surface of the inking-pad m away from the types upon the peripheries of the disks i, so that said type-disks t' are free to be turned by the dogs 3 progressively. The depression of the inking-pad m in this manner and the turning of the type-disks 'L' by the movement of the arm 1" and dogs 8, as heretofore described, are simultaneous. When the lever 'r is released, the helical spring g expands and elevates the rod 62, operating the armt and lever 0", its lever end r and dogs 8, together with the cam-plate 0 and yoke n, returning the parts to their normal position.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a consecutive-numbering machine, with the moving yoke-frame carrying the type-disks, the inking-pad, and its operating mechanism, of a lever pivoted to the moving yoke-frame and carrying dogs for operating the type-disks, and an arm pivoted in the sleeve of the main frame of the machine and adapted to be operated by the movement of the aforesaid lever to depress the moving yoke-frame and inkingpad, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a consecutive-numbering machine, With the main yoke-frame and its slotted sleeve a and the movable yokeframe 0 and its tubular slotted rod (1, the inking-pad m, yoke 01, and the cam-plates 0, of the lever 'r and lever-arm r, pivoted in the moving yoke-fram e, the dogs 8 upon the leverarm and the pivotal arm 25, moving in the slot of the sleeve a and engaging at one end the lever r and at the other end the slotted rod cl, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 26th day of December,

CHARLES SPIELMANN. W'itnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

